A can requires a complicated plan
The news is out. Some day, at a retailer near you, (in PEI), you will be able to buy a can of pop. Just like everywhere else. More details to follow.
Actually, a lot of details have followed. If I had stronger skills in logic, I could build a flow chart of conditions that would fill the page. (Remember, a picture is worth a thousand word – that should do for a blog entry.) You see, even the return of the lowly pop can is complicated when a politician is involved. Especially a politician with the holy fever of an impending election.
Last week, the Opposition proposed the return of the can as a pre-election promise. This week the Government riposted with a round from the legislative cannons. The can ban (which was a partial one at best) will be rescinded. In time. With rules and regulations and exceptions for existing stakeholders.
So far, the one bottling plant, the people that buy back the expensive emply glass bottles, the retailers with too much space (which store is that?) and the two huge world-level dealers of liquid sugar fructose with good advertising budgets all seem to have had a clause or two in the proposed law. A bill that resembles a papal bull (is Latin used in the PEI legislature? If not, why not? Discuss.)
Since the law will not actually do anything except enflame passion until New Year’s Day next year, we will still have a load of two litre pop torpedoes when we leave for summer vacation up east. We will continue to empty the glass bombs into empty torpedoes for transportation back to the campsite. In fact, transferring pop (generally mixed together into one flavour called camper juice) in the parking lot of Mel’s Mall. Tourists never really change. We will continue to recycle our glass bottles so quickly that the cashiers know us by name as the Speedies.
